Electrical Materials, a one-house distributor, shares with Buckles Smith an emphasis on the industrial MRO and OEM market.

Art Cook, president of Buckles-Smith, said his company made the acquisition to give itself a foothold in the San Francisco Bay area. “It’s an area where we don’t have a physical presence,” he said. “We have locations in the south bay and several location in the east bay, but we did not have any locations in the peninsula.”